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Today, EU Member States clearly voted in favour of the Commission’s proposal to stagger the superlevy fines in three equal interest-free instalments. Even the more liberal-minded countries such as the UK and Sweden were in favour of the proposal. Only three countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) voted against....

The 11-page draft own-initiative report, published last week, seeks to assess the support measures of the dairy package and recommends solutions to address market volatility. Rapporteur James Nicholson has called on the Commission to implement more “responsive and realistic” safety net measures and review the rate of...

(Brussels, 04.03.2015) Today in Brussels, the MIG and the EMB presented to the cabinet of the Federal Minister responsible for agriculture the dairy farmers’ situation and the results of the independent study on the costs of milk production in Belgium.

The study follows similar ones recognised by European bodies carried out in...